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In my art, most specifically my newest animation about New York City, I explore the urban experience unfiltered, with all it's beauty and it's blemishes. Working from my sketchbooks, in a form of visual journalism, the film attempts to document the challenges that NewYorkers face with their hopes and desires as they negotiate the urban matrix of the city itself.

There are layers and layers of people and places in the film, some opaque, while others we see right through. Most of the characters in the film were sketched from life, often in public places, but sometimes they are friends or lovers observed privately during moments of intimacy. In this regard the film is personal and has as many layers of interpretation as there are layers of drawings in it’s composition.

Structurally and thematically I am fascinated with the pulse ofthe urban beat. As I move the viewer through the city's vast spaces, I look for rhythmic patterns and shapes in the city's architecture, with it's majestic skyscrapers, bridges and endless avenues. I look for patterns of movement in the subway trains, ferries, taxis and pedestriansas they overlap and crisscross each other in an endless looping cacophony of shape and sound.

I consider my art a hybrid of social realism and theatrical fiction, where I combine animation based on observation, found sound, and visual diary forms into one work.

Influential artists and thinkers of mine in no particular order are : Yuri Norstein, George Grosz, John Hubley, Flannery O'Connor, David Lynch, Diane Arbus, Joseph Mitchell, Alfred Hitchcock, Saul Steinberg, Picasso, Herge, and David Hockney.